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OOOO'XJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOO ADVERTISEMENT OF W.B. SIMS New shipment or Art Squares and small Rugs. Some very beautiful eesigns. New line of grass rugs “Art Supreme” best quality ever handled. Wood finished iron beds, very popular at this time. Good line of Mattresses that will please everyone. You are invited to look over these goods. POLLYANNA — L „ COLYUM— GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING. Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8 Pebry 6a- INDISTINCT HI THE HOME JOURNAL Price $1.50 A Year. In Advance Published Every Thursday Morning Official Organ of Houston County JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGEJjl Thursday,Sept. 13. -THIS paper represented for foreign ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICE3 NEW YORK AND CHICAGO branches in all the principal cities THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE. If the leaders of the republican tarty are hunting for tho logical candidate for president to be nom inated next year, they will take Coolidge, without much hesitation Bis election is onother question, hedged about with much doubt. Of course he will be elected if all the citizens ivlio voted for Harding on last election vote for him .But the radicals in both the republican and democratic parties constitute, a group that cannot be located with any degree of certanity. The radical followers of La Follette, Borah and all the westerners of that ilk. Senator Underwood of Alabama is decidedly the logioal man for the democrats to nomi- sate for president* In the opinion of this writer he Is the best man for the place yet mentioned. But the faot that he’s ranked as a southern man with eon them ideas is held up before the politicians as a positive hand! cap Next comes McAdoo of New York and now of California, is a formidable candidate. He takes from Underwood a fair.measure of southern votes, which added the eastern and western votes that will surely go to him, makes the ehoiee of Underwood doubtful. Henry Ford of Michigan is not a logical candidate, but illogical candidates have been nominated and elected. Ford says ho is not bow a candidate. Former Presi* dent Harding was not a candidate sox months prior to his nomination Though not a logical candidate, lie i-j docidedly a political menace from a party stand point. He will not make a formal announcement hut others may “put in” the an nouncement. Ford is logically a political autocrat, and should he become President would practical* Hy become a one man power. 1 Just here como the dangers of the formation of a third party. Every boy and girl who is a member of the pute bread sheep elub of Big Horn, Wyo., sleeps under a blanket made of wool made from his own sheep, accord ing to reports t« the United States Department of Agriculture. Nearly 1,000,000 hogs were slaughtered during July of this year in establishments operating under Federal meat inspection, breaking all previous records for bog slaughter during the month. The exact number slaughtered and Inspected, according to the records of the bureau of Animal Industry. United States Department of Ag riculture, was 3,983,435. This number breaks tho best previous July record, which occurred last year by 879,113 hogs. Any hope that the United Slates may depend upou import.' of lumber when this countrys owi forests are exhausted must b< abandoned, says the Forest Ser vice, United States Department off Agriculture. Attention is calk ea&fcothe fact that this country it using up its f orest four times a.* mpidly as they are being replaced. Forest fires alone burn over 7,000. 000 acres of forest, laud every yea 1 destroying not only mature tree- lot—what is worse—the youn; growth as well. Howdy Folks, Tho originator of ¥ this one gets a medal: “Seven years ago a farmer boy hung his vest on the fence in the barnyard. A calf chew ed up the vest, in the pocket of which was a gold watch. Not long ago the animal, an old milch cow, was butch ered for beef and the ^ watch was found to be lodged III such a position between the cow’s lung that the cow's breathing had kept the watch wound up. and the watch had lost but four minutes in seven years.’, All of the dead ones aren’t under the sod. This Is Hard To See Through He—-“You Jive in the house next door, don’t you!” She—“Yes.” He—“I haven’t Been much of you.” She— No, I live on tho other side of the house. A German mark is more valu able than a eanoled postage stamp for the reason that there is more paper in the mark, Only bad eggs are to be found in love nests. Then The Trouble Began * * Where are your feathers, Mrs. Brown.” "Feathers, child! What do you mean!” "Why, mother said, ’Here comes that hen; “I’m glad that noy house i* elean.” Bill says a picnio is an occasion when a person takes out a few bites to eat and brings back a lot of bites to scratch. However, we shall not concede that Ford is a financial genius until we read that he is making money out of his newspaper. The reason, remarks Bill, that four or five girls riding in a motor oar with a young man all pile into the front Boat is that the front seat rides easier.” Anyhow, that’s what the girls say. Women’s hats, it is said, are to be larger. And, says Bill the milliner’s bill, no doubt, will be an affair of extra sighs. Some churches take tip so many collections, says Bill, that, it is beginning to look as if the King dom of Heaven is a pay-as-you enter proposition. , Even the highbrow must feel mortal when he catches himself perversely humming a popular song he detests. Ten-year-old girl has written a song hit. We supposed they were all written by children younger than that. Ode To A Non-Advertiser (Apologies to the author of the original) Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, “My trade of late is getting bad, I'll try a new display, by-gad.” If such there be go mark him well, For him no bank aceount shall swell; No angel watch the golden stair To welcome home a millionaire The man who never as^s for trade By local ad or goods displayed Cares moro for rest than wordly gain, And patronage but gives him pain. Tread lightly, friends, Jet no rude sound Disturb his solitude profound; Her# let him livo in calm repose. fJnsought except by those he owes There is many a diving Venn? vhose mother is at home diving town a washboard into a diff, rent rind of water. Reliability— At Your Price What you want out of a battery is continuous day-in and day-out serv ice. You can get that kind of sendee only from a well-built battery. We have Willard Bat teries at a wide range of prices—and every single one of them the kind you can count on. PERRY AUTO CO SALES AND SERVICE Perry, Ga. Willard Subscri be for the HOME JOURNAL and kee informed on the afairs of your county. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY REVIEWS TRANSPORTATION SITUATION . During the pre-war period railroad facilities were not improved from year to year because (he credit of tho carriers was bad, due to the refusal of the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit rate in- eroases. When the Governmont took over the property in the spring of 19l8 the machine was nob sufficient to handle conveniently or economically the extrodinary volume of business that the country was then doing. During Federal control, which lasted until March 1, 1920, but little effort was made to remeidy this situation. There was no extension of railroad mileago, only inadequate purchase of equipment, no irn* provement of shop facilities or terminals; while wage increases were out of of all proportion to rate in- oreases. . At the end of Federal control the carriers were less able to operate successfully than at the begian* ing, but during the past three years marked progress has been made. At the present time American railways are rendering to American busiues more efficient service than at any time in the history of the country. The railways are accomplishing this achievement at oosts to the traveling and shipping public, low* er than prevail anywhere else in the world. In order to fit themselves to render efficient service, the railways are expending during 1923 for equipment., additions and improvements, the enormous sum of one and one-half billitns f f dollars ($1,600,000,000 00.Railway management is justified in these immense expenditurs by faith in the Ameri can public, by belief in the spirit of the squaie deal, that will accord the railways the same treatment given to other industries. The public should be willing to give railway management an opportunity to function without further restrictive regulation or hampering legislation. Fair-minded people generally seem Milling to penult a trial of the present Transportation Act for a reasonable length of time, under normal conditions. Those who hold this view can assist in stabilizing business by communicating to their Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress,, their sentiments. The need of American business is not so much for cheaper transportation, as for more aPequate and efficient transportation. The public can better afford to pay the current rates than to suffer Llie inevitable losses that fellow a period of car shortage—and car shortages will oertainly come at regular intervals unless the railways are permitted to earn sufficient money to provide adequate equipment and facilities that will prevent these conditions. Freight rates are not out of line with commodity prices. In Jaruary of 1923, freight rates were 50 per cent higher than in 1913, while the average wholesale price of all commodities was 57 per cent higher than in 1913. Rates are not too high for the service rendered. The greatly increased costs of material, supplies, taxes, coal, and especially labor—which the railways must pay-necessitate the present level of rates. Tho railways are in no condition to withstand reduction# in their revenues at present. In 1920 there was a deficit of net railway income In 1921 the rate of return was 1.23 per cent; in 1922 it was 4.45 per cent, a striking contrast with the rate of return of other industries, particularly in view of the fact that during the war period when other industries were strong up comfortable surpluses, railway return was limited to the average made for the three years prior to July 1, 1917, Despite widespread belief to the contrary, there is no “guarnatee” of railway earnings in the Trans portation Act. The so-called “guarantee” is really a limitation to 5 3-4 per cent upon the Interstate Commerce Commission’s valuation of property devoted to transportation. There is no provision for the making up of deficits; on the other hand, a railroad that loses money oue year has no opportunity to recoup its Josses from the operations of a prosperous year, but must, under the Transportation Act, turn over to the government, half of its earnings above 5 3-4 per cent. Tho railways are reducing freight rates as rapidly as prudent judgment permits. In 1922 freight were reduced 13 per cent, while commodity prices were increasing. The railways were the* only large American industry that reduced to the consumer the cost of its product. • ■ The future development of transportation hinges upon one thing—the ability of the railways to secure sufficient capital to keep pace with the business demands of the country.Capital cannot be coerced —it can only be attracted. To attract it, investors must be assured of a reasonable rate of return, fair treatment, and freedom from confiscation. The poople of the United States have the choice between two alternatives—to give railway manage ment a chance to render service under the competitive conditions surrounding private ownership; or, to turn the roads over to government ownership, with political and partisan conditions as factors in manag ing the country’s greatest industry. W. A, WIN BURN, Savannah, Ga., September 11,1923* President, Central of Georgia Railway Company